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  2. From where I sit: Their profits, our loss

    The internationalisation of higher education is a double-edged sword: it has the potential to enrich and deprive the values of higher education simultaneously.Thus, while the global exchange of...

    #From Where I Sit
    #News
    #Opinion

  3. David Musselwhite, 1940-2010

    A leading literary critic described by an admirer as "a bit of an oddball" who was "not afraid to be an original thinker" has died.David Musselwhite was born on 3 December 1940 and graduated in...

    #People

  4. Noblesse oblige

    The current brouhaha surrounding Lord Ashcroft and his non-domicile status should not be allowed to obscure the fact that he has made a valuable contribution to the field of education.The...

    #Letters

  5. Old as you feel

    I feel I must write to say how depressing I found reading your latest Textbook Guide. The book entitled The 1960s: A Documentary Reader was classified under history. Am I really "history" at the age...

    #Letters

  6. Playground for the rich

    James Stanfield has come up with an interesting idea that universities should be expected to raise money locally, rather than receive it from the Treasury (a "public subsidy", as he calls it) ("...

    #Letters

  7. Unto the breach

    Your article "Bournemouth academic's constructive dismissal claim upheld" (www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, 26 February) has generated a great deal of comment.Several of the views expressed dwell on...

    #Letters

  8. Self, interested

    Harry Collins describes one of his eureka moments as the only time in his career when "I have run out into the corridor whooping (fully clothed, I should add)". His excitement was generated by...

    #Letters

  9. Customer model is a question of priorities

    Neal Curtis' article, "'Customer' isn't always right: market model could lead to disaster" (4 March), strikes me as a quaintly hysterical response to the need for universities to accept that they...

    #Letters

  10. Lead by example

    Why should University of Sheffield staff consider short weeks and unpaid annual leave to generate savings without knowing the outcome of national pay talks? ("Short weeks or unpaid leave proposed to...

    #Letters

  11. Contextual analysis 1

    Considering the attention devoted to it in the piece by Geoff Lucas ("Questions of context: low marks for crude admissions policies", 28 January), the "contexting" of university applications and...

    #Letters

  12. Contextual analysis 2

    Bahram Bekhradnia suggests that we don't give preferential treatment to state school applicants over independent ones because we are terrified of the Daily Mail ("Mind the gap").The charge shows how...

    #Letters

  13. Mustn't grumble

    Your article on bureaucracy in higher education, "Audit overload" (4 March), mentions academics "muttering" about the amount of paperwork they have to do. I'm afraid that muttering is not a...

    #Letters

  14. My eureka moment: Thinking outside the box

    Laurie Taylor began his academic career as a devotee of B.F. Skinner, but he escaped the behavioural maze thanks to Noam Chomsky and a tipsy rat

    #Features

  15. Comparethemarket.edu

    American universities will soon have to be more open about tuition charges and student retention rates. Many fear that the push to provide consumer-oriented information will lead to even greater cuts...

    #Features